The National Football League is donating more than $1 million to rebuild urban football fields as part of its youth football development program.In Chicago, a football field in Jackson Park will be renovated to serve that South Side neighborhood. "The goal of our overall youth football fund, which was established with the NFL Players Association, is to ensure that young people have an opportunity to enjoy playing the game of football," said NFL Commissioner Paul...
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 MOVIES Sphere * 1/2 Nine, 8.30pm Michael Crichton's sci-fi novel just doesn't work as a movie. No doubt director Barry Levinson thought he was on a winner with a cast comprising Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Peter Coyote on board but the script is a shocker. The navy has discovered a strange craft lying on the ocean floor in the middle of the Pacific and the boffins call in a diverse group of scientists to find out what...
Lee Seung-yeop, the home run king of Asia, is now in the United States to look into his chances of playing next season in the Major Leagues.The Samsung Lions first baseman, who set the Asian single-season record with 56 homers, arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday to sound out a number of teams on his move to the MLB. ``I don't know the exact situation here,'' Lee told Yonhap News Agency during a brief media conference at Los Angeles International...
CoverSTORY HIFF leaps into spring Film festival has it all: sex, mystery, myths and more By Wayne Harada, ADVERTISER ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Attitude. Diversity. Er, controversy, too.These are parts of a whole that make up the Hawaii International Film Festival's Spring Film Festival, which opens tonight at the Signature Dole Cannery Theatres.With fewer titles (21) than the larger Fall Film Festival (150 titles) and virtually no stars or luminaries on the red...
About 70 percent of South Korean single men are willing to get married to a North Korean woman, according to a local matchmaking agency Tuesday.In a nationwide survey of 489 unmarried people with 227 males, Daks Club found that 67.8 percent of male respondents said they would be willing to marry a North Korean woman. Asked to name their reasons, 45.1 percent, the majority of the surveyed males, said that North Korean women are not as sophisticated as their South Korean counterparts....